Contents: Brian Bercusson: Transnational Labour Regulation: Process and Substance - Kerstin Ahlberg/Niklas Bruun: Denmark, Finland and Sweden: Temporary Agency Work Integrated in the Collective Bargaining System - Haris Kountouros: The UK: Responding to the Need for Protection in a System Preoccupied with Flexibility - Christophe Vigneau: France: Another Approach to Flexicurity - Loredana Zappalà: Italy: From Prohibition to Introduction of Temporary Agency Work as a Measure to Promote Employment - Kerstin Ahlberg: Germany: «Premature Implementation» of the Directive in Spite of Resistance in the Council - Kerstin Ahlberg: The New Member States: Regulating a New Phenomenon - Loredana Zappalà: Legislative and Judicial Approaches to Temporary Agency Work in EU Law - An Historical Overview - Loredana Zappalà: Transnational Soft Regulation of Temporary Agency Work and Adaptability Policies: A Future of Guidelines with No Rights? - Kerstin Ahlberg: A Story of a Failure - But Also of Success. The Social Dialogue on Temporary Agency Work and the Subsequent Negotiations between the Member States on the Draft Directive - Brian Bercusson/Niklas Bruun: Free Movement of Services, Temporary Agency Work and the Acquis Communautaire - Brian Bercusson: Lessons for Transnational Labour Regulation. From a Case Study of Temporary Agency Work in the EU.